...that all dogs, from the St. Bernard to the tiny Poodle, are direct descendants of wolves. They can all breed together and produce fertile offspring. Technically they are of the same species.
...some authorities estimate that some dogs sense of olfaction (smelling) is as high as 1 million times greater than ours.
calculate your dog's age
(by the way, one dog year is NOT 7 human years, as you will know after you read this)
The first year of a dogs life = 15 years.
The second year of a dogs life = 10 years.
Every year there after is equal to 3 "human years."
Example: A ten year old dog would be: 15 + 10 + (3 x 8) = 49!
A 15 year old dog would be: 15 + 10 + (3 x 13) = 64!
Happy calculating!
did you know...
...that while the cheetah is the worlds fastest land animal it is also the only cat that can't retract its claws?
...that a tigress shot in India was reported to have killed and eaten 436 people between 1906-07?
...that when cats are "declawed" they are actually having their 3rd phalanx removed? It is the equivalent of you having your fingers cut off at the 3rd knuckle.
fufu the cat
right after the family dog died, fufu returned to her home in sicily with a new mate and three kittens eight years after she had disappeared when the dog had first arrived.(latimes, oct 2000)
the oldest profession
after becoming pregnant with their true love female adelie penguins on ross island in the antarctic prostitute themselves to other males in exchange for rocks which they need to build their nests. rocks are hard to find because horny males hoard them. (nigel barley, british airways inflight magazine, june 1998)
